Mario’s Bar and Kebab Shop

Mario’s is a total marvel to behold, a kebab shop which is also a bar is a fantastic idea and waiting in line for my burger and chips under the bright 1000 watt lights of the kebab house front we suddenly realise that we can take our polystyrene lunchboxes into the veneu [...]

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The Three Compasses Pub

Just a hop skip and a jump from Farringdon tube station is the strangely named Three compasses pub. One would wonder why on earth such a new age pub has such an old style name with no obvious reference inside as to its orgins but I guess the name is lost on me. Inside [...]

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Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen

As far as I have always known, the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen has been a very popular venue and notoriously difficult to get into on a Friday night, unfortunately the same cannot be said for a Monday night which is when I finally managed to bypass any sign of a crowd [...]

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The Glass House Stores Pub

From outside this Samuel Smith’s pub looks very much like a 300 year old shop front, frosted glass and aged oak. Within is a very narrow passageway which quite unaccessibley runs past the bar. Down at the back of the pub is seating of which there is rarely any available. After [...]

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The Crown Pub

Around the corner from golden square in soho and down the road from piccadilly circus, the crown hides. This small corner pub with its sideboard of a bar, draws a large crowd of after work drinkers for a totally unknown reason. The service is fairly fast but it is done without so much [...]

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Kingly Court Brasserie and Bar

Among the spectacle of high end bars with their guest-lists and pruned guests sits the kingly court brasserie. This venue is disguised during the day as a luscious cake shop and bakery with coffee shop exterior with some of the most marvelously decorated cup-cakes ever to be seen yet of an [...]

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Hogan’s Australian Pub

Hogan’s is a long thin Australian bar on the main strip of Barcelona, The Ramblas. There is no doubt it is a tourist trap for those English-speaking-types looking out for a pub, and indeed it becomes blatantly obvious once inside that this is exactly what it is. The bar itself is long and [...]

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The Gatehouse Wetherspoons

Quite what a wetherspoons is doing parked in the centre of the quiet village of highgate, i’m not too sure. Its stands out much like a sore thumb as the pickle of chain-bar high-street conglomerate which really doesn’t belong in these parts and its popularity is demonstrated within. Its a well don-out building, [...]

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Milo Bar

Just next to the Wire club in Leeds City Centre is Milo Bar, another completely alternative venue that raises more eyebrows than Bill Oddy. We queue outside briefly before heading into a red room with hanging lamps, a little dingy in context but not tiny. The bar service is un-impressingly slow, and it appears [...]

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Beau Monde Bar and Bistro

This curious venue , perched over the stetch of greenery whcih is the park running through bournemouth, does indeed look down on the world outside. It is far more of a plush leather-seated chrome-and-glass table bistro and cafe, than a bar. Middle aged persons who come to bournemouth for refinary overlook [...]

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